DDR ram needs two sticks to be used?

[Kai4Linux]

I heard someone that if you wish to use DDR ram, you HAVE to use it in pairs. so say i wanted 256 ram, you need two sticks of 128 if it is DDR? Is this true?

 

[Hessakia]

Nope, you can use just one stick of DDR Ram and be fine (the same cannot be said or RAMBUS or Dual Channel DDR)

 

[Xanthguy]

Have one stick in my system, works fine.

--Xg

 

[AndyHui]

You will need two DDR DIMMs if you purchase a motherboard based on the Granite Bay E7502 chipset. No other current DDR chipset has this requirement.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
You will need two DDR DIMMs if you purchase a motherboard based on the Granite Bay E7502 chipset. No other current DDR chipset has this requirement.

Yep, or Nvidia NForce 2 if you want better performance. Otherwise, whoever told you this is on crack, and is thinking of Rambus RIMMS, not DDR.

 

[BurnItDwn]

or they could have been thinking of the old 72mb simms or ... (or remeber the 30 pin simms that you needed 4 of ... man ... those were the days)

 

[compudog]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
or they could have been thinking of the old 72mb simms or ... (or remeber the 30 pin simms that you needed 4 of ... man ... those were the days)

Cool! Another old guy that remembers 30 pin SIMMs. Do you remember SIPPs too?? Where you actually had to line up a row of pins and carefully push them into sockets on the motherboard? Oh, and the IBM Blue Lighting 486 board! I wanted one of these so bad but settled for a Shuttle Spacewalker something with a Intel DX-2 66. 16 MB RAM, 340MB Hard Drive and Windows 3.11! I even had a 28.8 modem in this setup!